In recognition of a devout and exemplary life
in the faith as a peerless example to their coevals
and those to follow, the bones of martyrs and saints
become sacred icons placed in reliquaries to be
worshipped as a sign from on high of what heights
humanity can aspire to. Recently another kind of
reliquary was discovered, a rubbished collection
of bones and shards of bones on the site of a
former university campus dedicated to its learned
institute of anthropology, human heredity and eugenics.
Nazi Germany was big on eugenics and heredity
where the fragments of bone representing the lives
taken of children, men and women faulted by
their Jewish heritage were studied perhaps to
determine their ancient 'race' ordered to be
extinguished in favour of ridding the world
of their odious presence. Whatever those
laboratories found in their grisly inhumanity
as accessories to mass murder it lacked the
intention of honouring the human dignity
of those who died in a passion of hate.
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